{"id":310899,"date":"2020-01-17T12:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=310899"},"modified":"2020-01-17T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T07:01:19","slug":"amid-arguments-fastag-penetration-goes-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-arguments-fastag-penetration-goes-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid arguments, FASTag penetration goes up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toll plazas across the city saw mild confrontations and arguments on Thursday as toll authorities started charging double for vehicles entering the electronic toll lanes without FASTag, which has been made compulsory. <\/p>\n<p>After setting multiple deadlines to increase the penetration of the radio frequency ID (FASTag), the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) directed the toll concessionaires to collect 100% additional fee from those entering the dedicated lanes without the tag. At the same time, officials had been instructed to reduce the number of cash-payment lanes to 25%. <\/p>\n<p>With the latest deadline ending on January 15, the authorities on Thursday not only charged double for those who made cash payments at the plazas but also refused to give them daily pass\/monthly pass or return tickets which offer 30% savings on the fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toll plazas across the city saw mild confrontations and arguments on Thursday as toll authorities started charging double for vehicles entering the electronic toll lanes without FASTag, which has been made compulsory. After setting multiple deadlines to increase the penetration of the radio frequency ID (FASTag), the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) directed the toll concessionaires to collect 100% additional fee from those entering the dedicated lanes without the tag. At the same time, officials had been instructed to reduce the number of cash-payment lanes to 25%. With the latest deadline ending on January 15, the authorities on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}